Scholarly CV A4 Template - Università della Svizzera italiana
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Scholarly CV A4 Template - Università della Svizzera italiana
Curriculum Vitae – Updated March 2016 Gabriele Balbi, Ph.D. Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG) Faculty of Communication Sciences Università della Svizzera italiana, USI Via G. Buffi 13 CH - 6904 Lugano [email protected] CURRENT POSITION Senior Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sep 2015-now. Study Delegate and Vice-Dean, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. Director of China Media Observatory, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. EDUCATION Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Communication Sciences, Dissertation title Storia sociale del telefono in Italia 1877-1915. Il ruolo della classe politica, delle società telefoniche, dei tecnici e degli abbonati nella co-costruzione del nuovo mezzo di comunicazione, Supervisor Prof. Giuseppe Richeri, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, Dec 2008. Master of Arts (summa cum laude with special mention and recommendation for publication) in Multimedial and Mass Communication, Dissertation title Effetto giorno. Storia del passaggio dall’illuminazione a gas a quella elettrica nell’Italia di fine Ottocento, Supervisor Prof. Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin, Italy, Mar 2004. Bachelor in Communication Sciences, Dissertation title Il socio-telefonico: temi e percorsi di studio, Supervisor Prof. Carmen Belloni, University of Turin, Italy, Feb 2002. PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS Junior Assistant Professor in Media Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Feb 2013 – Aug 2015. Lecturer in Media and Politics, Northumbria University, School of Arts and Social Sciences, United Kingdom, Sep 2012 – Jan 2013. Douglas Byrne Marconi Fellow, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom, Jan – Dec 2012. Visiting Scholar, University of Westminster, CAMRI, United Kingdom, Nov 2011 – Jul 2012. 1 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, History Department, USA, Feb – Oct 2011. Post Doc, Università della Svizzera italiana, Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Jan 2009 – Jan 2011. Visiting Student, Maastricht University, Social Science & Technology Studies, The Netherlands, Jun – Aug 2007. Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, History of Science, USA, Feb – May 2007. Ph.D. student, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Oct 2004 – Dec 2008. PUBLICATIONS Books Fari, S., with G. Balbi and G. Richeri (2015). The formative years of the Telegraph Union. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing. 199 pages. Balbi, G., & Magaudda, P. (2014). Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Rome-Bari: Laterza. 208 pages. Balbi, G., with S. Fari, G. Richeri, S. Calvo. (2014). Network Neutrality. Switzerland’s role in the genesis of the Telegraph Union, 1855-1875. Bern: Peter Lang. 227 pages. Balbi, G. (2011). Le origini del telefono in Italia. Politica, economia, tecnologia e società. Milan: Bruno Mondadori. 240 pages. Balbi, G. (2010). La radio prima della radio. L’Araldo Telefonico e l’invenzione del broadcasting in Italia. Rome: Bulzoni. 238 pages. Edited Books Balbi, G., & Winterhalter, C. (Eds.). (2013). Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare il vecchio e il nuovo. Naples-Salerno: Orthotes. 156 pages. Full Articles Balbi, G., & Kittler, J. (forthcoming). One-to-One and One-to-Many Dichotomy: Grand Theories, Periodization, and Historical Narratives in Communication Studies. The International Journal of Communication, expected in 2016. Bory, P., Benecchi, E., & Balbi, G. (forthcoming). How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the WWW. New Media and Society, expected on August 2016. Balbi, G., & Natale, S. (2015). The Double Birth of Wireless: Italian Radio Amateurs and the Interpretive Flexibility of New Media. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 22(1), 26–41. Richeri, G., & Balbi, G. (2015). The final days of the RAI hegemony. On the sociocultural reasons behind the fall of the public monopoly. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 3(1-2), 632 79. Balbi, G., Fari, S., & Richeri, G. (2014). Telecommunications Italian Style. The shaping of the constitutive choices (1850-1914). History of Technology, 32, 235-258. Balbi, G., & Ortoleva, P. (2014). Plea for an un-natural history of digital culture. Contemporanea, 3, 482-489. Natale, S., & Balbi, G. (2014). Media, History, Imaginary: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change. Media History, 20(2), 203-218. Balbi, G. (2014). Quando i nuovi media erano nuovi. Sulle ragioni socio-culturali della precoce metabolizzazione del telefonino in Italia. Studi Culturali, 1, 71-76. Fari, S., Balbi, G., & Richeri, G. (2013). The Bureaucratisation of the Telegraph Union. Storia Economica, 2, 377-394. Balbi, G., Fari, S., Calvo, S., & Richeri, G. (2013). Specialità svizzere. L’influenza della Confederazione elvetica sull’origini dell’Unione Telegrafica, 1855-1875. Tst: Transportes, Servicios y telecomunicaciones, 25, 150-175. Balbi, G., Fari, S., Calvo, S., Richeri, G. (2013). Swiss specialties: Switzerland’s role in the genesis of the Telegraph Union, 1855-1875. Journal of European Integration History, 19(2), 207225. Balbi, G. (2013). The idles mattered. The early Italian telephone and its users. Estudos em Comunicação / Communication Studies, 14, 39-58. Calvo, S., Balbi, G., Fari, S., & Richeri, G. (2011). La voie suisse aux télécommunications. Politique, économie, technologie et société (1850–1915). Revue Suisse d’Histoire, 61(4), 435-453. Balbi, G. (2011). Una storia della storia dei media. Mappa di una disciplina in formazione. Problemi dell'informazione, 2-3, 163-192. Balbi, G. (2011). Un percorso bibliografico nella storia dei media. Problemi dell'informazione, 23, 339-348. Balbi, G. (2011). Doing Media History in 2050. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 8(2), 113-133. Balbi, G. (2011). The Origins of the Telephone in Italy, 1877–1915: Politics, Economics, Technology and Society. International Journal of Communication, 5, 1058-1081. Balbi, G. (2010). Radio before Radio: Araldo Telefonico and the invention of Italian broadcasting. Technology and Culture, 51(4), 786-808. Balbi, G., & Prario, B. (2010). The history of Fininvest/Mediaset’s media strategy: 30 years of politics, the market, technology and Italian society. Media, Culture and Society, 32(3), 391-409. Balbi, G., Calvo, S., Fari, S., & Richeri, G. (2009). “Bringing together the two large electric currents that divide Europe”: Switzerland’s Role in Promoting the Creation of a Common European Telegraph Space, 1849-1865. ICON, 15, 61-80. 3 Balbi, G. (2009). Tra Stato e mercato. Le prime società telefoniche italiane, 1878-1915. Contemporanea, 3, 447-470. Balbi, G. (2009). I “parassiti” contano. La telefonia italiana e i primi abbonati (1880-1915). Studi Culturali, 1, 43-59. Balbi, G. (2009). Studying the Social History of Telecommunications. Between Anglophone and Continental Traditions. Media History, 15(1), 85-101. Balbi, G. (2008). Dappertutto telefonini. Per una storia sociale della telefonia mobile in Italia. Intersezioni, 3, 465-490. Prario, B., & Balbi, G. (2007). Ritorno al Futuro. Il passato e il presente della Mobile TV. Observatorio (OBS) Journal, 2, 103-122. Balbi, G. (2007). Squilli di carta. I primi 40 anni del telefono nelle pagine della letteratura italiana. Memoria e Ricerca, 25(2), 127-152. Balbi, G. (2005). I vecchi e i giovani. Strategie di mimesi tra old e new media. Studies in Communication Sciences, 5(1), 183-204. Books Chapters Balbi, G., & Moraglio, M. (forthcoming). Mediatizing Transport and Transporting the Media. A proposal to de-centralise communication and mobility research agendas. In S. Fari & M. Moraglio (Eds.), Peripheral flows: Mobilities between core(s) and fringe(s) in a historical perspective. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Expected in 2016. Barra, L., & Balbi, G. (2016). The Italian way to teletext: The History, Structure and Role of Televideo Rai. In H. Moe & H. Van den Bulck (Eds.), Teletext in Europe: From the Analogue to the Digital Era (pp. 205-226). Göteborg: Nordicom. Balbi, G., & John, R. (2015). Point-to-Point: Telecommunications Networks from the Optical Telegraph to the Mobile Telephone. In L. Cantoni & J. A. Danowski (Eds.), Communication and Technology, 5th volume of the Handbook of Communication Science (pp. 35-55). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Balbi, G. (2015). The International Bureau. In S. Fari, with G. Balbi and G. Richeri (Eds.), The formative years of the Telegraph Union (pp. 59-79). Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing. Balbi, G. (2015). Old and New Media. Theorizing Their Relationships in Media Historiography. In S. Kinnebrock, C. Schwarzenegger, & T. Birkner (Eds.), Theorien des Medienwandels (pp. 231-249). Köln: Halem. Balbi, G. (2014). Da Morse a Jobs. Politica, impresa, tecnologia e utenti nella storia delle telecomunicazioni. In M. Cucco (a cura di), La trama dei media. Stato, imprese, pubblico nella società dell’informazione (pp. 45-58). Rome: Carocci. Balbi, G. (2013). Dal telefono alla radio (e ritorno?). In V. Marchis & F. Profumo (a cura di), Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero. Tecnica (pp. 437-448). Rome: Istituto della 4 Enciclopedia Italiana. Balbi, G. (2013). I media. Quattro paradigmi nella relazione tra vecchi e nuovi mezzi di comunicazione. In G. Balbi & C. Winterhalter (a cura di), Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare il vecchio e il nuovo (pp. 15-36). Naples-Salerno: Orthotes. Balbi, G. (2013). Wireless. Nascita, morte e resurrezione di un’idea. In D. Borrelli & M. Gravila (a cura di), Media che cambiano, parole che restano (pp. 245-256). Milan: Franco Angeli. Balbi, G. (2013). Telephony. In M. Danesi (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Media and Communication. Toronto (pp. 632-633). Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press. Balbi, G. (2013). “I Will Answer You, My Friend, but I am Afraid”: Telephones and the Fear of a New Medium in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy. In S. Nicholas & T. O’Malley (Eds.), The Media, Social Fears and Moral Panics: Historical Perspectives (pp. 59-75). London and New York: Routledge. Balbi, G. (2013). Telecommunications. In P. Simonson, J. Peck, R. T. Craig, & J. P. Jackson (Eds.), Handbook of Communication History (pp. 209-222). London and New York: Routledge. Balbi, G., & Isabella, S. (2010). I media e il privato in pubblico: una storia. In P. Jedlowski & O. Affuso (a cura di), Sfera pubblica. Il concetto e i suoi luoghi (pp. 107-128). Cosenza: Pellegrini. Balbi, G., & Mäusli, T. (2009). Studiare la storia della radio e della televisione nella Svizzera italiana. In T. Mäusli (a cura di), Voce e specchio. Storia della radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana (pp. 9-17). Locarno: Armando Dadò. Balbi, G., & Prario, B. (2008). Back to the Future. The Past and the Present of Mobile TV. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (pp. 161173). London: Routledge. Balbi, G. (2005). Leggere di televisione. In G. P. Caprettini & S. Zenatti (a cura di), Linguaggi televisivi (pp. 201-225). Rome: Carocci. Guest Edited Special Issues Balbi, G., & Scaglioni, M. (2014). VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6). Special Issue: Convergent Television(s). Balbi, G., Miconi, A., & Ortoleva, P. (2011). Problemi dell'informazione, 2-3. Special Issue: Come cambiano i media. Sfide, categorie, direzioni di ricerca. Conference Proceedings Fari, S., Balbi, G., & Richeri, G. (2012). A common technical culture of telegraphy: the Telegraph Union and the significance of Technological Standardization, 1865-1875. HISTory of ELectrotechnology CONference, Third IEEE. Balbi, G. (2012). Marconi’s diktats. How Italian international wireless policy was shaped by a private company, 1903-1911. HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference, Third IEEE. Balbi, G. (2008). The ‘Araldo Telefonico’. Origins, Structures and Models of the Italian 5 Broadcasting”. Antenna. Newsletter of the Mercurians, 20(2), 9-14. Selected Proceedings of Workshop Mercurians (special interest group of SHOT), Washington, October 2007. Prario, B., & Balbi, G. (2008). Back to the Future. The Past and the Present of Mobile TV. In K. Ross and S. Price (Eds.), Popular Media and Communication: Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes (pp. 24-40). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Proceedings of MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), Coventry, January 2007. Books Review Balbi G. (2016). La bugia del cloud. I media studies scoprono la fisicità della digitalizzazione. Review article published by L’indice dei libri del mese, 4. Balbi G. (2015). Review of the book Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy, edited by M. M. Hampf & S. Müller-Pohl. H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, October, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=45327. Balbi G. (2014). Review of the book Vie e mezzi di comunicazione in Italia e Spagna in età contemporanea, edited by C. B. López, A. di Vittorio, G. Fenicia & N. Ostuni. The Journal of Transport History, 35(2), 251-252. Balbi G. (2014). Review of the book Il Concilio in diretta: il Vaticano II e la televisione tra informazione e partecipazione, by F. Ruozzi. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34(1), 121-122. Balbi G. (2011). Review of the book Verso la Modernità: I bresciani e le esposizioni industriali 1800-1915, by S. Onger. Technology and Culture, 52(4), 831-833. WORKING BOOKS, CHAPTERS & PAPERS (Edited book, Submitted to Palgrave). S. Sparviero, C. Peil, & G. Balbi (Eds.), Media Convergence and De-Convergence. (Paper, Submitted). The “critical flaw” of wireless. The Marconi Company and broadcasting option in the early 20th century. (Chapter, To be Submitted). With P. Bory. Surfing Braudel: doing Internet history. In J. Hunsinger, L. Klastrup & M. Allen (Eds.), International Handbook of Internet Research Vol. 2. TEACHING EXPERIENCES Lecturer “Introduction to European Media History” and “Media Imaginary: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change”, Europe-China Dialogue: Media and Communication Studies Summer School 2015, July 1-10 2015. Lecturer “European Media Histories. Constitutive Choices from 19th to 21st century”, 2015 Summer School on Communication Law Sino-Europe Youth Leadership Program, June 15-July 3 2015. Lecturer “Storia dei mezzi di comunicazione”, Università della Svizzera italiana, bachelor level, since 6 Fall 2014. Co-lecturer “Applicazioni multimediali e nuovi media”, Università della Svizzera italiana, bachelor level, Spring 2014. Lecturer Erasmus staff mobility for teaching assignments, Northumbria University, bachelor level, February 2014. Lecturer “Sociologia della comunicazione di massa”, Università della Svizzera italiana, bachelor level, since Spring 2013. Co-Lecturer “Media Cultures”, Northumbria University, bachelor level, Fall 2012. Lecturer “Working in Mass Communication Industries”, Northumbria University, master level, Fall 2012. Lecturer “Storia e Teoria della Comunicazione”, Università della Svizzera italiana, bachelor level, Fall 2009. Lecturer “Modelli e strumenti dell’informazione on line”, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, master level, Spring 2009. Lecturer “Storia del giornalismo e della comunicazione mass mediale”, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, master level, Spring 2009. Teaching Assistant “Storia della comunicazione nell’Italia contemporanea”, Università della Svizzera italiana, master level, Spring 2008, Fall 2009 and 2010. Teaching Assistant “Storia sociale della Comunicazione”, Università della Svizzera italiana, bachelor level, 2004-2008 and 2010. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Balbi, G. (2015). The role of Switzerland in the construction of the Telegraph Union. Workshop Transnational Histories of Telecommunications @ITU, Geneva, December. Balbi, G. (2015). Historicizing Media Convergence as a buzzword, 1970s-2010s. International Communication Forum, Shanghai, October. Balbi, G. (2015). Old and New Media: Theorizing Their Relationships in Media Historiography. Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Global Communication, Beijing, October. Bory, P., & Balbi, G. (2015). What does “Doing Internet History” Mean? ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop, Venice, September. Rikitianskaia, M., & Balbi G. (2015). Wireless-ments: The international understanding of wireless telegraphy in the early 20th century: common points and conflicts. 7th Tensions of Europe Conference. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, September. Balbi, G., & Natale, S. (2015). Prophecies, Newness, Obsolescence. Media History and Past, Present and Future Imaginaries. Associazione italiana di sociologia/European Sociology Association Conference, Naples, June. 7 Balbi, G., Fari, S., & Richeri G. (2015). Communications and the States. The Swiss Influence on the origins of ITU, 1855-1876. 65th ICA Annual Conference – Preconference: Communications and the State Puerto Rico, May. Balbi, G. (2015). Roundtable “Innovazione digitale. Tecnologie, informazione, media”. Osservatorio astronomico la Specola, Padoa, April. Rikitianskaia, M., & Balbi G. (2015). European dimension in transnational telecommunication studies. Inventing European Wireless, 1903-1927. Tensions of Europe mini workshop. Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH), Paris, January. Balbi, G. (2015). European Memories. A transnational project on media and the process of remembering in Europe. HERA Joint Research Programme, Matchmaking Event, Tallinn, January. Balbi, G. (2014). Questioning “media convergence” through history. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference, Lisbon, November. Natale, S., & Balbi, G. (2014). Media, Imaginary, History: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference, Lisbon, November. Balbi, G., & Moraglio, M. (2014). Travelling or Communicating? The False Dilemma of Mobility. Questions about a marginalized issue. ICOHTEC (International Committee for the History of Technology), Braşov, July-August. Balbi, G. (2014). A History of Media Convergence, 1970s-2010s. NECS-European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Milan, June. Balbi, G. (2013). Deconstructing “media convergence”: A cultural history of a buzzword, 1980s-2000s. Deconstructing Media Convergence Conference, Salzburg, November. Balbi, G, & Richeri, G. (2013). 3 options for a research in media and mobility. Workshop Peripheral Mobilities, Granada, November. Fari, S., Balbi, G., Richeri, G. (2013). “European Multilateralism” (1848-1865): a Telegraphic idea? Conference of Tensions of Europe, Paris, September. Balbi, G. (2013). Old/New, Tradition/Innovation, Change/Continuity. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop, Lisbon, September. Balbi, G. (2013). Inventing European Wireless. A project on the cultural history of wireless from pointto-point telegraphy to one-to-many broadcasting, 1903-1927, Transnational Mediascapes Conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, May. Balbi, G. (2013). Conversing or listening? One-to-one and one-to-many communication: the cases of Telephone and Radio. Workshop: New Technologies and Cultures of Communication in the 19th and 20th Centuries, the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, May. Balbi, G., & Fari, S. (2012). History and Historiography of Telecommunications in Italy. Workshop: The Italian Technology in a European and Global Context, 15th-20th Centuries, European University Institute, Florence, November. 8 Balbi, G. (2012). What wireless testified. Italian Radio Amateurs and legal debates on communication. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference, Istanbul, October. Fari, S., Balbi, G., & Richeri, G. (2012). Last in First Out. How the Telegraph Brought to International Organization Before Post and Trains. ICOHTEC (International Committee for the History of Technology), Barcelona, July. Balbi, G., & Natale, S. (2012). Doing by imagining: imagination and the construction of the media in history. Aberystwyth Media History Conference, Aberystwyth, July. Balbi, G. (2012). There is something new under the media today, or rather, something ancient. STS Italia, Rovigo, June. Balbi, G., & Kittler, J. (2012). Dialoguing With Socrates or Disseminating Like Jesus? Rereading Communication History Through ‘One-to-One’ and ‘One-to-Many’ Lenses. ICA (International Communication Association), Phoenix, May. Balbi, G., & Fari, S. (2011). Vienna Conference. Workshop Eventing Europe/Event Stories, Maastricht, December. Balbi, G. (2011). L’iPad di Clio. O sulla storia (dei media) quale disciplina in grado di leggere l’innovazione. Forum italiano per lo studio dell’innovazione, Rovigo, November. Balbi, G., Fari, S., Calvo, S., & Richeri, G. (2011). The Swiss Influence in the ITU’s Decision-Making Process, 1855-76. SHOT (Society for the History of Technology), Cleveland, November. Balbi, G. (2011). The European Wireless, 1897-1925. Between National Styles and Common Patterns. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop, Dublin, September. Balbi, G. (2011). The Origins of the Telephone in Italy, 1877-1915: Politics, Economics, Technology, and Society. ICA (International Communication Association), Communication History Interest Group, Boston, May. Balbi, G. (2010). How Subscribers Mattered. The Early Italian Telephone and its Users. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop, Potsdam, June. Balbi, G., Calvo, S., & Fari, S. (2010). The Austro-German and the West European telegraph unions as predecessors of the International Telegraph Union. GWZO-Geisteswissenschaftliches Zetrum Workshop, Leipzig, Mai. Balbi, G. (2010). How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone as a case study. ESSHC (European Social Science History Conference), Ghent, April. Balbi, G. (2010). Chi conserva e che cosa conservare per la storia dei media? Fondazione Telecom Italia, University of Turin, April. Isabella, S., & Balbi, G. (2009). I media e il privato in pubblico: una storia (intimità e sfera pubblica). AIS (Italian Association of Sociology), Urbino, November. Balbi, G. (2009). The scary house. When the old telephone gave rise to new fears. IAMHIST (The 9 International Association for Media and History), Aberystwyth, July. Balbi, G. (2009). Doing Media History in 2050. MiT (Media in Transition), Boston, April. Isabella, S., & Balbi, G. (2009). I media e il privato in pubblico: una storia. Ossidiana (Osservatorio per lo studio dei Processi Culturali e della Vita Quotidiana), Arcavacata di Rende, April. Balbi, G. (2009). All the Telephone’s Men. Politici, imprenditori, tecnici nella storia della telefonia italiana. Colloquio Postale dell’Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, Prato, February. Balbi, G., & Prario, B. (2008). Fininvest/Mediaset and the history of its media strategy. 30 years of politics, market, technology and society. ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy), Edinburgh, November. Balbi, G. (2008). Mercato, Stato, Pubblico. Storia delle prime società telefoniche italiane 1880-1915. SISE (Italian Association of Economic History), Milan, November. Balbi, G. (2008). How (Early) Subscribers Mattered. La telefonia italiana ed i primi abbonati (18801915). 2nd National STS Italia Conference, Genoa, June. Balbi, G. (2005). I vecchi e i giovani. Strategie di mimesi tra old e new media. AIS (Italian Association of Sociology), Naples, November. Balbi, G. (2004). City and home lights. Tecnologie d’illuminazione e trasformazioni dell’intimità. AIS (Italian Association of Sociology), Cagliari, June. INVITED LECTURES & BOOK PRESENTATIONS Balbi, G. (2015). Introduction to European Media History. Course “General introduction to mass communication” given by prof. Xu Jin, Peking University, Beijing, October. Balbi, G. (2015). La storia dell’Araldo telefonico. Vernissage dell’esposizione “Tra radio e telefono. Il broadcasting in Italia 1905-1945”, Palazzo Velli, Roma, October. Balbi, G., Magaudda P. (2015). Roundtable on Storia dei media digitali. With R. Barberio, S. Boccadutri, A. Marinelli, A. Miconi, S. Nicita. Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea e Istituto dei beni sonori e audiovisivi, Rome, May. Balbi, G. (2015). Book Presentation Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Tipografia del Commercio, Lecce, February. Balbi, G. (2015). Book Presentation Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Associazione sociologia in Progress – Ricerca, Cultura e Comunicazione Sociale and Liceo Scientifico Majorana, Brindisi, February. Balbi, G. (2015). Storia dei media digitali. PhD meetings “Scienze della mente e delle relazioni umane”, Università del Salento, Lecce, February. Balbi, G. (2014). Mediastoriografica. Rapporti tra storia dei media e storia della TV. Seminars: Intorno ai media: scambi e discussioni, Turin, December. 10 Balbi, G. (2014). The re-emerging past. Reflections on media historiography. NSF-Kolloqium, NCCR Mediality, Universität Zürich, November. Balbi, G. (2014). Le origini del telefono in Italia. Politica, economia, tecnologia e società. Fondazione ISEC. Workshop: Sistemi di comunicazione, tecnici e imprese nelle carte degli archivi aziendali, Sesto San Giovanni, November. Balbi, G. (2014). Sui miti fondativi della rete. Progetto formativo ECM Comunicare nell’era di Internet. La grande rete, potenzialità e limiti, Turin, October. Balbi, G. (2014). Book Presentation La radio prima della radio. Meeting Onde Radio, Castel di Ieri, August. Balbi, G., & Cerulo, M. (2014). Vecchio e nuovo. Media ed emozioni. Seminar Ossidiana (Osservatorio per lo studio dei Processi Culturali e della Vita Quotidiana), Arcavacata di Rende, June. Balbi, G., & Winterhalter, C. (2014). Book Presentation Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare vecchio e nuovo. The Library of the Senate of the Italian Republic, Rome, May. Balbi, G. (2014). Book Presentation Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare vecchio e nuovo. Seminars: Culture, Politica, Società, University of Turin, April. Balbi, G. (2014). Per una storia dell’idea di servizio pubblico. Workshop: Servizio pubblico e informazione: le nuove sfide, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, March. Balbi, G. (2013). Una breve storia delle telecomunicazioni. Telegrafia, Telefonia, Wireless. Course “Media History” given by prof. Massimo Scaglioni, Catholic University, Milan, October. Balbi, G. (2013). Fare televisione non è fare telefono. O no? Summer School – Prix Italia 2013, Turin, September. Balbi, G. (2013). Between telegraph and radio. When Marconi Company discovered the ‘broadcasting option’ of his wireless. Séminaire Histoire des Sciences Histoire de l’Innovation, Sorbonne Université, Paris, April. Balbi, G. (2013). Marconi and the broadcasting option, or, When Marconi didn’t invent broadcasting. The annual Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture, Oxford University, April. Balbi, G. (2012). Invited Speaker. YECREA Panel at ECREA General Conference, Istanbul, October. Balbi, G. (2011). Immaginario: etimologie e costruzione sociale dei media. Seminar: Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni, Turin, December. Balbi, G. (2011). Media History Matters. Araldo Telefonico and the telephone as a one-to-many medium. Seminar at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, September. Balbi, G. (2011). Media History Matters! Araldo Telefonico – When the Telephone Served as Radio. PCA Performance and Communication Arts Department, St. Lawrence University, Canton, September. Balbi, G. (2011). Invited speaker. YECREA (Young Scholar Network of ECREA) Workshop at Communication History Conference, Dublin, September. 11 Balbi, G. (2011). There is something new under the media today, or rather, something ancient. Research Seminars at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, March. Balbi, G. (2011). Book Presentation La radio prima della radio. Modern and Contemporary History Library, Rome, January. Balbi, G. (2010). Discussant. Seminar: Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni, Turin, October. Balbi, G. (2010). Book Presentation La radio prima della radio. City Hall Public Library, Serravalle Scrivia, October. Balbi, G. (2010). Book Presentation La radio prima della radio. Museum of Radio and Television, Turin, June. Balbi, G. (2009). La storia si ripete? Metabolizzazione del telefono fisso e mobile nelle società italiane di fine secolo. Seminar: Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni, Turin, May. PhD SUPERVISIONS Maria Rikityanskaya, Provisional Title: “Telecommunications and the First World War”, from October 2014. Paolo Bory, Provisional Title: “From the Founding Fathers to the Web Society. Key Themes in the Internet History”, from February 2014. CONFERENCE, PANELS and TRACKS ORGANIZATION Workshop Organizer, “Transnational Histories of Telecommunications @ITU”, Swiss National Science Foundation, USI-Lugano and ITU, Geneva, December 2015. Workshop co-Organized (with J. Fei), “Remapping or Remapped. A workshop on Chinese Media Global”, Sino Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation Symposium, Lugano, December 2015. Conference co-Organizer (with J. Kittler and R. Salzberg), “Bridges and Boundaries: Theories, Concepts and Sources in Communication History”, ECREA-Communication History Section, Venice, September 2015. Track co-Organizer (with P. Magaudda), “How materiality matters in digital worlds: Artefacts, media, and discourses”, National STS Italia Conference, Milan, June 2014. Track co-Organizer (with S. Natale), “Nothing New in the New? History and the Emergence of New Media”, National STS Italia Conference, Rovigo, June 2012. Panel Organizer, “Do Politics Have Artifacts? The Promise of International Communications Networks”, SHOT, Cleveland, November 2011. SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS “Remapping or Remapped. A workshop on Chinese Media Global”, Stepping Stone Symposium founded 12 by the Sino Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation Program 2013-2016, 2015 (CHF 13’000). “Transnational Histories of Telecommunications @ITU”, International Exploratory Workshops founded by Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 9’760) and by OFCOM (CHF 10’000), 2015. Publication grant (book Network Neutrality), founded by Fondazione Hilda and Felice Vitali, 2014 (CHF 8’000). Ambizione Program, founded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2012-2014 (CHF 422’718) – declined. Douglas Byrne Marconi Fellowship, founded by Bodleian Library, Oxford University, 2012 (£ 4.000). Post Doc Fellowship for perspective researchers, founded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 20112012 (CHF 71’225). Publication grant for Ph.D. dissertations, founded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011 (CHF 4’560). Ph.D. student fellowship, founded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2007 (CHF 29’800). Master Thesis Award, Club Optime, Chamber of Commerce in Turin, 2004. RESEARCH PROJECTS Director, “Inventing European Wireless. A cultural history of wireless from point-to-point telegraphy to one-to-many broadcasting, 1903-1927”, granted by Swiss National Science Foundation, Oct 2014 – Sept 2017 (CHF 220’368). Research Assistant, Project “The Swiss Influence in ITU’s decision-making process, 1865-1914”, granted by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2009-2010. Research Assistant, Project “History of Italian Swiss Radio and Television”, granted by RTSI (Radio and Television of Italian Switzerland), 2006-2009. Research Assistant, “Hear and See” project, granted by Swiss Virtual Campus, 2005-2006. Research Assistant, Project “Peng” (PErsonalized News content programminG), granted by European Commission (FP6), 2004-2006. EDITORIAL BOARD and REVIEW EXPERIENCE Membership of Editorial Boards Journals: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies; Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture; Quaderni di teoria sociale; L’avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes; Media History. Publishers: Orthotes-Series “Teoria Sociale”. 13 Review Experience Journals: Technology and Culture; medien&zeit–Kommunikation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart; Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies; Media History; Comunicazioni sociali; Studies in Communication Sciences; Historia de la Economia y de la Empresa; European Journal of Communication; Wi: Journal of Mobile Media; VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture; Bianco e Nero; Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture; Critical Studies in Media Communication; Cinergie; The Communication Review. Publishers: Palgrave; Cambridge Scholar Publishing. Conferences: STS-Italia 2012; ECREA 2012 and 2014; ECREA-Communication History Section 2013 and 2015; ICA-International Communication Association 2016. BOARDS and SERVICE Member of the Committee, Association Histoire & Informatique Suisse, Nov 2015-now. Member of the Support Committee, ECREA-Communication History Section, Nov 2014-now. USI Responsible minor in “Communication and Media”, Bachelor in Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. USI Responsible (with prof. Cristina Lasagni) Locarno Film Festival-Summer School, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. Director of China Media Observatory, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. Study Delegate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland, Sept 2014-now. Member of the “Academic Integrity committee”, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013-2014. Member of the “Collegio dottorale/PhD board”, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013-2015. Member of the Strategic planning commission USI-Com 2011-2015, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009-2010. Member of the Organizing committee of Epiday (Young Scholars Research Day), Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009-2010. Co-organizer, “Doctoral and research seminars”, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2008-2010. LANGUAGES & TOOLS Italian (mother tongue), English: fluent, French: reading, Spanish: reading 14